Memes!

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Meme the First: the book list

Key:

• Read: bold
• Read, not finished: italic
• Read more than once: asterisk*
• Couldn't stand: strikethrough
  

1. Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
2. Anna Karenina
3. Crime and Punishment -- I have, however, catalogued it once, as an English/Russian parallel text.
4. Catch-22 -- I, um, lost it. The book. Missing. Oops.
5. One Hundred Years of Solitude
6. Wuthering Heights
7. The Silmarillion
8. Life of Pi: A Novel
9. The Name of the Rose -- I might try this one again sometime. Maybe.
10. Don Quixote
11. Moby Dick
12. Ulysses
13. Madame Bovary
14. The Odyssey
15. Pride and Prejudice
16. Jane Eyre
17. A Tale of Two Cities
18. The Brothers Karamazov
19. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
20. War and Peace
21. Vanity Fair
22. The Time Traveler's Wife
23. The Iliad
24. Emma
25. The Blind Assassin
26. The Kite Runner
27. Mrs. Dalloway
28. Great Expectations
29. American Gods* -- In a word, Gaiman.
30. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
31. Atlas Shrugged -- Would you kindly tell the folk at 2K that Andrew Ryan is a fairly obvious allusion. And the anagrams! Redrawn Ayn, Rand yawner, raw Ayn nerd, and apparently a randy wren. He must be Voldemort!
32. Reading Lolita in Tehran: a memoir in books
33. Memoirs of a Geisha
34. Middlesex
35. Quicksilver
36. Wicked: the Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West* -- ...if you hadn't guessed. :D
37. The Canterbury Tales -- I don't know why I read the introductions on these, but still. It came down from the shelf today.
38. The Historian: A Novel
39. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
40. Love in the Time of Cholera
41. Brave New World
42. The Fountainhead
43. Foucault’s Pendulum
44. Middlemarch
45. Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus
46. The Count of Monte Cristo
47. Dracula
48. A Clockwork Orange
49. Anansi Boys* -- See above, re: Gaiman.
50. The Once and Future King
51. The Grapes of Wrath
52. The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel
53. 1984*
54. Angels & Demons -- By someone whose more famous tome is, simply put, a helpful synonym for something you likely wish to avoid stepping in.
55. The Inferno
56. The Satanic Verses
57. Sense and Sensibility
58. The Picture of Dorian Gray
59. Mansfield Park
60. One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
61. To the Lighthouse
62. Tess of the D'Urbervilles
63. Oliver Twist
64. Gulliver's Travels
65. Les Misérables
66. The Corrections
67. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
68. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
69. Dune
70. The Prince -- It's... somewhere. When I feel the urge to extract it from whatever it's under and finish it, I probably will.
71. The Sound and the Fury
72. Angela's Ashes: a Memoir
73. The God of Small Things
74. A People’s History of the United States: 1492-present
75. Cryptonomicon
76. Neverwhere* -- And again, Gaiman.
77. A Confederacy of Dunces
78. A Short History of Nearly Everything
79. Dubliners
80. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
81. Beloved
82. Slaughterhouse Five
83. The Scarlet Letter
84. Eats, Shoots & Leaves* -- Eee!
85. The Mists of Avalon
86. Oryx and Crake: A Novel
87. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
88. Cloud Atlas
89. The Confusion
90. Lolita
91. Persuasion
92. Northanger Abbey
93. The Catcher in the Rye -- No. Just no.
94. On the Road
95. The Hunchback of Notre Dame
96. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
97. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values
98. The Aeneid -- In fairness, this one's only because I was handed the 10% or one chapter foreducationalpurposes allowed under the Copyright Act 1968.
99. Watership Down
100. Gravity's Rainbow
101. The Hobbit*
102. In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences
103. White Teeth
104. Treasure Island
105. David Copperfield
106. The Three Musketeers

Meme the Second: the TV list

Key:

• Have seen three or more episodes: bold
• Have seen every episode: italic, though presumably bold as well
• Have seen at least one whole season on DVD/tape/other recording/distribution medium: add an asterisk*
  

1. America’s Next Top Model
2. Angel*
3. Are You Afraid of the Dark?
4. Are You Being Served?
5. Arrested Development
6. Babylon 5
7. Babylon 5: Crusade
8. Battlestar Galactica (the old one)
9. Battlestar Galactica (the new one)* -- And oh, how I want a copy of that version of All Along the Watchtower.
10. Baywatch
11. Beavis & Butthead
12. Beauty and the Beast
13. Beverly Hills 90210
14. Blackadder
15. Bonanza
16. Bones -- or: Emily Deschanel's Chewed Scenery Emporium
17. Bosom Buddies
18. Boston Public -- Up until they got Jeri Ryan and the network changed the time slot. These incidents may not be related. Possibly, it may have helped to insist their customer service department smell a shoe.
19. Boy Meets World
20. Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
21. Buffy the Vampire Slayer* -- I believe there was talk of 'Whedon is our king' somewhere.
22. Bug Juice
23. Caitlin’s Way
24. Chappelle’s Show
25. Charlie’s Angels
26. Charmed -- Until it got especially silly.
27. Cheers
28. Clarissa Explains It All
29. Columbo
30. Commander in Chief
31. Coupling
32. Cowboy Bebop
33. Crossing Jordan -- Yay supporting cast!
34. CSI
35. CSI: Miami Sunglasses -- Would that I'd seen none of it.
36. CSI: NY
37. Curb Your Enthusiasm
38. Dallas
39. Dancing with the Stars
40. Danny Phantom
41. Dark Angel
42. Dark Skies
43. Davinci’s Inquest
44. Dawson’s Creek
45. Dead Like Me
46. Deadwood
47. Degrassi: The Next Generation
48. Designing Women
49. Desperate Housewives
50. Dharma & Greg
51. Dinosaurs
52. Different Strokes
53. Dirty Jobs
54. Doctor Who (1963)
55. Doctor Who (2005)*
56. Doctor Who (2006)*
57. Dragnet
58. Due South
59. Earth 2
60. Emergency!
61. Entourage
62. ER
63. Everwood
64. Everybody Loves Raymond
65. Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
66. Facts of Life
67. Family Guy
68. Family Ties
69. Farscape -- Again, until it got especially silly. Though it could be interesting if Rhys Muldoon ever confuses Farscape with Play School...
70. Father Ted
71. Fawlty Towers
72. Felicity
73. Firefly* -- Of course.
74. Flash Forward
75. Forever Knight
76. Fraggle Rock
77. Frasier
78. Freaks and Geeks
79. Friday Night Lights
80. Friends
81. Futurama
82. Get Smart
83. Gilligan’s Island
84. Gilmore Girls
85. Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
86. Greek
87. Green Wing
88. Grey’s Anatomy
89. Growing Pains
90. Gunsmoke
91. Hannah Montana
92. Happy Days
93. Hardcastle & McCormick
94. Heroes
95. Highlander
96. Highlander: The Raven
97. Hogan’s Heroes
98. Hillstreet Blues
99. Home Improvement
100. Homicide: Life on the Street
101. House* -- but they're a week behind showing season 4 here! Alas! No italics for me!
102. Hunter
103. I Dream of Jeannie
104. I Love Lucy
105. Instant Star
106. Inuyasha
107. Invader Zim
108. Invasion
109. JAG
110. Jackass
111. Jeeves and Wooster
112. Joey
113. John Doe
114. Just Shoot Me
115. Keen Eddie
116. Knight Rider
117. LA Law
118. Laverne and Shirley
119. Lexx
120. Life on Mars
121. Life With Derek
122. Little House on the Prairie
123. Lizzie McGuire
124. Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
125. Lost -- Until... they exploded the teacher? Something like that.
126. Lost in Space
127. Love, American Style
128. M*A*S*H -- There might be an episode I haven't seen, but I kind of doubt it.
129. MacGyver
130. Magnum PI
131. Malcolm in the Middle
132. Mama’s Family
133. The Man from U.N.C.L.E
134. Married... With Children
135. Melrose Place
136. MI:5 Spooks -- Dear US TV networks, why not just call it Harry Pearce and the Sorcerer's Stone and be done with it?
137. Miami Vice
138. Millennium
139. Miracles
140. Mission: Impossible
141. Monk
142. Mork & Mindy
143. Murphy Brown
144. My Life as a Dog
145. My Name is Earl
146. My So-Called Life
147. My Super Sweet 16
148. My Three Sons
149. My Two Dads
150. News Radio
151. NCIS*
152. Nip/Tuck -- In the interests of disclosure, exactly three episodes.
153. North Shore
154. Numb3rs
155. One Tree Hill
156. Oz
157. Perry Mason
158. Phil of the Future
159. Pokemon
160. Power Rangers
161. Prison Break
162. Profiler
163. Project Runway
164. Psych
165. QI
166. Quantum Leap
167. Queer As Folk (US)
168. Queer as Folk (UK)
169. Red Dwarf -- It's cold outside/there's no kind of atmosphere...
170. ReGenesis
171. Relic Hunter
172. Remington Steele
173. Rocco’s Modern Life
174. Rescue Me
175. Road Rules
176. Robotech
177. ROME
178. Roseanne
179. Roswell
180. Salute Your Shorts
181. Saved by the Bell
182. Scarecrow and Mrs King
183. Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?
184. Scrubs* -- Note to self: buy season three. And four. And... you get the picture.
185. Seinfeld
186. Sex and the City
187. Six Feet Under
188. Skins
189. Sliders
190. Slings and Arrows
191. Smallville -- Dear Mr Kent, just let Lex die. It'll save entire movies of grief later.
192. So Weird
193. South Park
194. Spaced
195. Spongebob Squarepants
196. Sports Night
197. Star Trek -- These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise
198. Star Trek: The Next Generation -- her continuing mission:
199. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine -- Hey! We can't go anywhere in this!
200. Star Trek: Voyager -- And maybe if they stop to ask for directions...
201. Star Trek: Enterprise
202. Stargate Atlantis
203. Stargate SG-1
204. Superman
205. Supernatural
206. Surface
207. Survivor
208. Taxi -- Which I'm assuming isn't some alternate title for Hack, which, if memory serves, had detectives Tritter and Pembleton. Probably with other names, but still: Tritter and Pembleton.
209. Teen Titans
210. That 70’s Show
211. That’s So Raven
212. The 4400
213. The Addams Family
214. The Adventures of Pete and Pete
215. The Andy Griffith Show
216. The Apprentice
217. The A-Team
218. The Avengers
219. The Beverly Hillbillies
220. The Bionic Woman (the old one)
221. The Brady Bunch
222. The Cosby Show
223. The Daily Show
224. The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd
225. The Dead Zone
226. The Dick Van Dyke Show
227. The Dresden Files* -- Alas. Would that there were more.
228. The Famous Jet Jackson
229. The Flintstones
230. The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
231. The Golden Girls
232. The Honeymooners
233. The Invisible Man
234. The Jeffersons
235. The Jetsons
236. The L Word
237. The Love Boat
238. The Lucille Ball Show
239. The Mary Tyler Moore Show
240. The Mighty Boosh
241. The Monkees
242. The Munsters
243. The Muppet Show -- It's time to play the music/It's time to light the lights...
244. The Mythbusters -- From Science! to 'plosions in 0.6 seasons!
245. The Nanny
246. The O.C.
247. The Office (UK)
248. The Office (US)
249. The Pretender
250. The Real World
251. The Sentinel
252. The Shield
253. The Simpsons
254. The Six Million Dollar Man
255. The Sopranos
256. The Suite Life of Zack and Cody
257. 3rd Rock from the Sun
258. Third Watch
259. Three’s Company
260. Top Gear
261. Torchwood -- or: Jack's finally allowed to say 'hello'.
262. The Twilight Zone
263. Twin Peaks
264. Twitch City
265. Two and A Half Men
266. Ugly Betty
267. Veronica Mars
268. The Vicar of Dibley
269. The Waltons
270. The West Wing
271. Whose Line is it Anyway? (US)
272. Whose Line is it Anyway? (UK)
273. Will and Grace
274. Wings
275. Wiseguy
276. Without a Trace
277. WKRP in Cincinnati
278. The Wonder Years
279. The X-Files
280. Xena: Warrior Princess

So, yay. I leave you to draw your own conclusions.